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PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...
PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...

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MS GRAPH API Protocol for B2Bi Mail Client Service Adaptor

We have one integration where we are using B2B Mail Client Adapter to fetch mails and perform operations. Now Exchange servers from where we are downloading mails are moving to Cloud. They want us to use protocol like MS graph API or Exchange Web ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Not under consideration

Node out of cluster - Process files gracefully automatically

Business will get benefitted and avoid impacting bank's reputation.
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Needs more information

Location Table ContactName string greater than 35 charecters.

We are currently using this field 'Contact' to store the email address, but the email that we are currently updating is 36 characters long and the last character is getting truncated due to the field length limitation of the Contact field. So need...

Lot's of remote profiles causing the UI page to crash on SFG Consumer - SFTP profile selection page

Lot's of remote profiles causing the UI page to crash on SFG Consumer - SFTP profile selection page, should have a property to control the no.of profiles displayed on the sftp profile selection page.. IBM Case# TS009761621
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Onboarding 0 Planned for future release

Automatic Control of Sessions between the client and partners to avoid Wait Sessions

If the client has in netmap configuration session limit defined and the partner has in their netmap configuration session limit different from the client, it will leave the process in wait and sometimes depending on the volume, Connect:Direct will...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 2 Not under consideration

Looping Functionality for Dialogs (UI, API, XSLT)

Many times it is not possible to know the number of times that you need an API to execute. Looping would allow the execution of an API or UI dialog to be dynamic. This could be utilized in a great number of use cases, one of which I outlined below.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 1 Functionality already exists

Allow Connect Direct processes "Waiting on I/O" to stop consuming a Thread (similar to how SFTP operates)

In order to expand usage of Connect Direct inside B2Bi, Connect Direct processes need to behave similar to other protocols. Connect Direct consumes an entire Thread (queue watcher) the entire time a Connect Direct transfer is occurring. With other...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

Add a polling feature to IBM Sterling B2B Integrator similar - to the IBM Sterling GENTRAN polling feature.

The GENTRAN polling feature we have used for years had made it possible to be very close to RealTIME in processing and getting files to their destination. Our internal systems and external customers have come to expect this, especially to meet SLA...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Functionality already exists

Adding custom attributes/object to demand entity

While capturing the demand in SIP, we want to collect, persist, and publish additional information associated with the Demand. This will help the demand data to be more informative to downstream systems.
about 1 year ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 1 Future consideration

Configuration to control Sell and Fulfill capability at node level

Can a product feature be provided as: 1. Ability to turn ON/OFF a node for availability or fulfilment or both. 2. Ability to associate a duration on the action to turn OFF.
about 1 year ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 1 Functionality already exists